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PRESSROOM UNIONS, ETC. FUND v. CONTINENTAL ASSUR. CO.

No. 704, Docket 82-7631.

700 F.2d 889 (1983)

PRESSROOM UNIONS-PRINTERS LEAGUE INCOME SECURITY FUND, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONTINENTAL ASSURANCE CO., a Member of the C.N.A. Group, Reserve Life Insurance Co., and its wholly owned subsidiary American Progressive Life & Health Insurance Company of New York, George S. Kriegler, Benjamin A. Kriegler, Labor Security Programs, Inc., and Raymond M. Kriegler, deceased, by John Doe, Mary Moe and Roe Corp. 1-10, the true names of the preceding defendants being presently unknown to plaintiff, the foregoing fictitious names intending to designate the executors, administrators, trustees, successors in interest and heirs-at-law of the said Raymond M. Kriegler, deceased, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1983.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing April 7, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. Hoey, Mineola, N.Y. (Suozzi, English & Cianciullo, P.C., Stephen C. Glasser, Mineola, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Vincent R. Fitzpatrick, Jr., New York City (White & Case, Dwight A. Healy, Richard A. Horsch, New York City, Hughes & Hill, H. Robert Powell, Dallas, Tex., of counsel) for defendants-appellees, Reserve Life Ins. Co. and American Progressive Life and Health Ins. Co. of New York.

Robert S. Cohen, New York City (Lans, Feinberg & Cohen, Deborah E. Lans, New York City, of counsel) for defendants-appellees, George S. Kriegler, Benjamin A. Kriegler and Raymond M. Kriegler (deceased).

Before KAUFMAN, TIMBERS and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

In the last decade, Congress has enacted nearly one hundred statutes granting additional jurisdiction to the federal courts. Areas as diverse as environmental law and child custody have been brought within the purview of the federal judiciary. Exercising this new jurisdiction, however, requires us not only to adjudicate complex disputes, but also to define the limits of our expanded authority. The instant action, brought pursuant...

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